On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:33:27PM +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Ahoi, > > I've been looking for a clean git-converted gentoo-x86 repo for ... well > ... mostly data mining as cvs / anoncvs.g.o is too slow for some things. > > This has been needlessly challenging, which confuses me a bit. > > First, a little complaint: > > There used to be some data at git-exp.overlays.gentoo.org, but that > machine has vanished. Ok, stuff happens, but that's not motivating. That physical host was made into the new home of overlays.g.o when the previous host died. The content is still available.
> Anoncvs.g.o is bouncing up and down a lot, so just getting the raw cvs > repo to do a local conversion is somewhere between needlessly hard and > impossible. Even with the move to anonvcs being separated from sources.g.o last week? > The gentoo-scm mailinglist has mostly fallen asleep, but even the stuff > discussed there doesn't seem to exist in a public repo that can be found > without telepathy skills. ... > I'd appreciate it if people that worked on the conversion would point me > at the scripts and documentation they used; I'd appreciate a proper > 'official' repo to collect such things; and it'd be really useful to > have the work-in-progress converted repo online so that people can > experiment with it. I'm going to document what's last on there, as well as in my head onto the wiki. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
